This executive summary details recommendations from the exploratory, qualitative research conducted alongside the ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) CEO Digital Mentoring Program (the Program) pilot in 2021.

This paper calls for an overhaul of the current approach to Indigenous economic participation through business creation. It outlines a practical model for remote Indigenous communities that harnesses the fundamental principle of supply and demand, and what the authors identify as the three foundations of business creation — capability, entrepreneurship and business support.

An evaluation of a mentoring program for women enrolled in university economics courses using a mixed-methods randomised controlled trial. The evidence suggested the mentoring program had a material impact on students’ decisions to continue with economics. The report concludes that mentoring programs should be considered in the suite of options for encouraging women students to...

This research report and evidence guide provide recommendations to help improve the design and delivery of youth mentoring programmes, and summarises the existing evidence base.

People with intellectual disability (ID) often experience multiple disadvantages in education, work, health, community and social participation. International research reveals that formal mentors can have important positive influences on wellbeing and employment. Men’s Sheds are ideally situated to support young adults with ID due to their unique activity-based mentoring context.